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It’s hard to pinpoint exactly which is the more exciting development of the past seven days; the sudden explosion of stuff pertaining to the 50th anniversary—trailers, teasers, pictures, gossip, quotes and all sorts, just keep on reading and you’ll see—or the certain knowledge that this collection here represents just the foothills of a gigantic mountain of amazing stuff that is still on the way.

So, here is everything that has happened in the past week, apart from things we may have accidentally overlooked in the rush:

• First, there was the #SaveTheDay hashtag campaign, in which the Doctor very excitedly reveals a plan to make a digital TARDIS (complete with hidden treasures) out of hashtag links. Look, here he is explaining it:

• And this tiny snippet, which has already caused heated discussions to break out as to the significance of the scarf on the lady to the right:

• New pictures from “The Day of the Doctor”, and an interview with Joanna Page in which she says: “So everyone is probably jealous, thinking ‘she gets to kiss the Tenth Doctor and it’s all romantic’, but it’s not; my lips were numb and my hands were chapped.”

• Now, what else? Oh yes! Strax is back! He doesn’t like Zygons, and he does like the Scots:

• Steven Moffat spoke to SFX about John Hurt’s character, and said, enticingly: “He’s not a fresh-born Doctor. We didn’t want to imply that he’d just been around for a little while. There’s a whole lot of stuff you missed! It’s a nice thing to be able to say in the show, and for no one to be able to contradict you, that there were years that you didn’t know about… we lied and lied, there’s a whole big old chapter you didn’t know.”

• An interview with David Tennant, in which he says, with some understatement: “I think since I left, the expectation had been that I’d end up in this special, because there is a precedent for old Doctors coming back for a visit around the anniversary time.”

• The British children’s TV show Blue Peteris launching a competition, in which their audience are invited to design a sonic device for the next series of Doctor Who. It could be anything, from a toaster to a pencil.

• A charming interview with Bernard Lodge, who created the eerie opening credits to the first Doctor Who, setting a benchmark that all subsequent title sequences have had to meet, in which he says this: “I thought it would be good to have the Doctor’s face coming out of the pattern, but Verity [Lambert] thought it would be too scary and I think she was right because when my kids saw just the shapes they were scared. ”